Reading Before Bed Can Relieve Fatigue

"Look, she's embarrassed."

Kamigami Haruo poked Shiranami Chihiro's cheek with his finger, mischievously voicing the girl's feelings at the same time.

"Honestly, Haruo-kun, stop teasing Chihiro. You're making her embarrassed."

After being reprimanded, Kamigami Haruo switched his target to Ichinose and said,

"Honami, indulging her like this isn't a good idea. You're clearly having a hard time yourself."

"How about this, then? One more itch won't make a difference, so how about adding me to the mix?"

Hearing that, Shiranami Chihiro, who had been looking away, turned back in shock. Her face held thirty percent astonishment, thirty percent gritted teeth, thirty percent embarrassment, and ten percent eager anticipation.

She was astonished by how direct he was, gritted her teeth because someone wanted to take her person away, felt embarrassed when she recalled their physical contact that morning, and looked forward to that special feeling from earlier.

"Put away those lewd, filthy thoughts. You're practically radiating pervert vibes right now. If you don't restrain yourself, I'll personally send you to prison."

A cool voice suddenly sounded by his ear. Kamigami Haruo shrugged and dropped the matter. He had only been talking big, anyway.

Once her shock faded, Ichinose put her hands on her hips and scolded him with a trace of panic in her voice.

"Saying something like that to a girl will make people think you're a pervert, Haruo-kun."

"Who told Honami to be so easy to bully? Let's head out first and talk later."

Beep~

Kamigami Haruo looked painfully at the long receipt in his hand.

But after checking the balance on his phone app and seeing that he still had a full one hundred thousand points, his confidence returned.

They had bought everything they needed, so they would not have to live on grass next month.

Come to think of it, it was cherry blossom season now. He had heard that some people made dishes with cherry blossoms.

If cherry blossoms could be used in cooking, then they could be eaten. If he got hungry, he could just pick some up under a tree. Perfect.

He would find time to collect some cherry blossoms and prepare them for next month, so he could support Class D with cherry blossoms when they ran out of points.

Thinking that, Kamigami Haruo carried a shopping bag in one hand and the Portable Induction Cooker he had just bought in the other, calling for the three beautiful girls to head toward the dorms.

"Let's go, time to head back."

The three beautiful girls beside him each carried shopping bags of varying amounts. Some contained fresh ingredients, some held newly bought decorations, but most were filled with the daily free ingredients each person was entitled to.

"Want to go to my room? Horikita-san brought the cookware there this morning, and it's still in my room."

"No problem, but Chihiro and I need to go back and put down our luggage first."

Since Ichinose and Shiranami Chihiro had bought so many things, they had no choice but to make a trip back for convenience.

As for the other girl, there was no need to mention her. Aside from practical goods, she had not even glanced at anything else, so she went straight to Kamigami Haruo's room.

After all, this was one of the few curiosities she had expressed. She wanted to see how Kamigami Haruo could turn a piece of meat into something so... well, difficult to swallow.

"See you later~"

"See you later~" ×2

After Kamigami Haruo said goodbye to the two girls by the elevator doors on the fourth floor, he took the remaining girl into Room 404.

"Ah, I'm exhausted~"

After putting everything down, Kamigami Haruo simply lay on the floor. It seemed that as long as shopping was involved, no amount of slacking could keep him from getting tired.

Kamigami Haruo rolled over and looked at Horikita Suzune, who was sitting on a chair beside him and bending over to massage her feet, then spoke.

"Horikita-san, Sukiyaki is up to you. I'll handle the other stuff."

"Trusting you really was my mistake. I never should have foolishly believed what you said."

Although she said that, Horikita Suzune still took out her phone and searched for a tutorial to learn from.

She was still the daughter of a prominent family, after all. Many things were new to her, including cooking. It was just that she had put in several times more effort than ordinary people, and she truly had the confidence to back herself up.

She was merely a little sharp-tongued, a little low in emotional intelligence, and a little too self-centered.

Uh, it really was a bit severe.

But whose personality in Class D was not worse than hers? It was just that she had not intended to fit into the group, so no one defended her.

Seeing this, Kamigami Haruo got up as well. He took out the folding table he had just bought and placed it in the center of the room, set the induction cooker on top, washed a pot, and placed it on the cooker.

Once everything was ready, he took the ingredients from the shopping bags and began preparing them with a kitchen knife.

He heated oil in the pot, briefly stir-fried the side ingredients, then added the rice. Since he did not have day-old rice, he could only use the rice he had cooked before leaving at noon. He added seasonings and kept tossing the wok until everything was evenly mixed.

Once he was done, he served four plates of fried rice, shaped each portion into an oval, washed the pot, dried it over heat, then used a paper towel dipped in a little oil to coat the pot evenly.

He took out a bowl, cracked in enough eggs for four people, and once the pot was slightly heated, poured in a single serving of egg.

Once it had set a little, he broke it apart. After it set again, he used chopsticks to lift the edges of the egg, then pushed it toward the side of the pot.

He took a bag of shredded cheese from the shopping bag, opened it, and grabbed a large handful to scatter over the egg.

He tossed the pan slightly to flip the egg halfway over. Once it held its shape, he flipped it completely, forming an oval egg parcel, then placed it on top of the fried rice.

Ta-da, done. Runny cheese omurice.

He made three more omurice using the same process, then prepared ketchup and waited for the beautiful girls to write on them.

Horikita Suzune had also reached the halfway point, and her sauce was ready.

Click.

"Sorry to intrude~" ×2

"Oh, you're here. It's almost ready."

Hearing them, Kamigami Haruo, who was washing the pot, invited the two to sit down.

After everything had been dealt with, he dried his hands with a towel and carried the plates over to the table.

"Omurice is here~"

"Honami, come write something."

Kamigami Haruo handed the ketchup to Ichinose.

"Then I'll just write whatever I want."

Ichinose proceeded to write everyone's names, then drew a heart for each of them.

At the same time, after roughly looking over a tutorial, Kamigami Haruo opened a large box of high-quality sliced beef and dumped it all into the oiled pot. After waiting a moment, he poured in some sauce.

Horikita Suzune cracked four eggs into a bowl so everyone could dip the food in them.

Wouldn't dipping it like that make it slimy? Someone who had never eaten it before thought so.

Perhaps none of these girls had eaten it before, either.

One was timid and would have had difficulty making friends without Ichinose, though perhaps she had eaten it with her family.

One lived in financial hardship and had resolved to step out of the shadows and come to this school in order to save her mother money.

One lived alone with no social life and maintained a highly regular routine for both life and meals. From the way she interacted with her Brother, it was clear she did not get along well with her family. It was hard to imagine that she had ever had the chance to try this.

After serving the cooked beef into four individual bowls, he began adding all sorts of ingredients: sliced shiitake mushrooms, carrot slices, firm tofu, shirataki noodles, cabbage, enoki mushrooms, and another package of beef slices he had just opened.

Finally, he poured in the sauce and let everything simmer to finish it off before putting the lid on the pot.